"Johnson is a surname of English origin. The name itself is a patronym of the given name John, literally meaning \"son of John\". The name John derives from Latin Johannes, which is derived through Greek \u1F38\u03C9\u03AC\u03BD\u03BD\u03B7\u03C2 I\u014Dann\u0113s from Hebrew \u05D9\u05D5\u05D7\u05E0\u05DF Yohanan, meaning \"Yahweh has favoured\". The name has been extremely popular in Europe since the Christian era as a result of it being given to St John the Baptist, St John the Evangelist and nearly one thousand other Christian saints."@en .